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Google & Sun Planning Web Office

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-believe-it-when-i-see-it dept.

astrab writes "According to this post at Dirson's blog, Google and Sun Microsystems are to announce a new and kick-ass webtool: an Office Suite based on Sun's OpenOffice and accesible with your browser. Today at 10:30h (Pacific Time) two companies are holding a conference with more details, but Jonathan Schwartz (President of Sun Microsystems) claimed on Saturday on this post of his blog that "the world is about to change this week", predicting new ways to access software."

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  1. Google Conquers all by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    [X] Google Earth
    [X] Google Moon
    [X] Google Sun

    Looks like we live in a google universe.

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    1. Re:Google Conquers all by famebait · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes I make mistakes. Don't we all?

      I dno't.

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    2. Re:Google Conquers all by GreyPoopon · · Score: 4, Funny
      Looks like we live in a google universe.

      Effective this week, the Universe will be officially renamed to "Googleverse". This is not just an effort to pay homage to Google, our new ruling class, but also to distinguish the Googleverse that we live in from other parallel universes.

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    3. Re:Google Conquers all by justforaday · · Score: 4, Funny

      I dno't.

      Sheesh! If you're going to use a contraction, the apostrophe goes in place of the letter you removed. This should very obviously be "I d'not."

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    4. Re:Google Conquers all by SomeoneGotMyNick · · Score: 4, Funny

      perhaps with the ads targetted to the content of your document.

      Yes, typing up love letters will get you ads for eHarmony or Viagra.

    5. Re:Google Conquers all by Stile+65 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You say "Gmail's early days" like it's already out of beta or something... :)

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    6. Re:Google Conquers all by PhilHibbs · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other news, 36.2% of all other parallel universes all named themselves "Googleverse", the other 63.8% of universes don't have a Google. Inhabitants of these other universes began to seek ways of travelling between unniverses on release of this news. Ironically, their efforts are hampered by not having a Google search engine to help in thier research.

  2. Blog blogblog! by generic-man · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't mean to blog, but I totally blogged this yesterblog. Take that, blogosphere!

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  3. Wow by Lisandro · · Score: 5, Funny

    I live in another hemisphere and i can hear the guys at Microsoft developing an ulcer!

        Seriously, if this is true, things are going to get pretty interesting...

    1. Re:Wow by renderhead · · Score: 4, Funny
      ...i can hear the guys at Microsoft developing an ulcer!


      Yeah, but with their development process, it will be at least 3 years before Ulcer Vista (TM) sees the light of day. By the time it's finally released, it will lack the much lauded "WinPeptic" feature set that they're hyping today, and it will just be playing catch-up to Apple's iReflux (TM), a component of the Indigestion X (TM) system.
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  4. Not this online crap again... by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 5, Funny

    An online office suite? This is going to be bigger than Microsoft Bob!

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  5. furniture by codepunk · · Score: 4, Funny

    I imagine a great deal of furniture is gonna be abused today.

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  6. Terrible Disruption in the FORCE by putko · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm feeling a terrible disruption in the force --- it is as if a million chairs just got thrown out a window.

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  7. Great! by SPYvSPY · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's put "critical software for airports" on a remote server so airport employees can work from home! I can't see any problems with that idea at all!

  8. Re:Microsoft's Worst Fear by Alranor · · Score: 5, Funny

    MS won't do the extra effort to brake their OS more on SUN h/w then on the others.

    To be fair though, Microsoft don't seem to have to put any particular effort into making their OS break, it just kinda happens.

  9. Re:What if? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah!! And what if in their secret underground labs they're working on a new hypermatter engine that could transport children and chia pets to distant stars in seconds??? I mean, they're partnering with and draining away talent from NASA, and they have like a kajillion dollars, so they could do it!!!

  10. Google, you don't want to see Clippy angry! by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    He may seem mild-mannered, helpful, even annoying--but you're about to find our what a ruthless corporate bastard he really is.

    -Eric

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